Constructing Lists Manipulating Lists by Their Indices Nested Lists

If you want to do simple operations on Mathematica notebooks, then you will usually find it convenient just to use the interactive capabilities of the standard Mathematica ...

Cells as Mathematica Expressions Notebooks as Mathematica Expressions Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel

When you have numerical data, it is often convenient to find a simple formula that approximates it. For example, you can try to "fit" a line or curve through the points in ...

There are a number of functions built into Mathematica which, like Plot, have various options you can set. Mathematica provides some general mechanisms for handling such ...

You can manipulate lists of transformation rules in Mathematica just like other symbolic expressions. It is common to assign a name to a rule or set of rules. This assigns ...

Converting between symbols and their names. Here is the symbol x. Its name is a string.

Manipulating global options in the front end. Just like cells and notebooks, the complete Mathematica front end has various options, which you can look at and manipulate from ...

Finding and setting values of symbols. Mathematica effectively stores all definitions you give as lists of transformation rules. When a particular symbol is encountered, the ...

A full Mathematica installation consists of thousands of separate files, arranged in several hundred directories under the main installation directory. The location of the ...